Photo crash-and-burn

I know I haven't had any photos up for a while, here or on my Flickr site, and for that there is a very good reason. My computer can't find my photos. Basically. iPhoto just won't recognize any of my photos, which I guess means technically they're still there in Finder, and I can open and edit them in Preview.... however I miss the easy accessibility and usability of iPhoto, which shows a little exclamation mark of doom every time I try and open any of the photos. But when I delete photos out of iPhoto and try to import them from Finder, I get an error message. I guess that's what's freaking me out. Why can't I import any of my finder photos, which I can open in other applications and which obviously still exist? Why not? The whole idea of iPhoto is that you can import any kind of picture into it! So there must actually be something wrong with these photos.... and that terrifies me so much, because these photos are my entire life in Italy this year, and the summer before that and then this past summer. I don't want to lose them! So, for the time being, I'm not uploading any more photos onto my computer, I've created backups on my mom's computer, and tomorrow I'm going to take in my computer to an Apple technician who will make it better and not charge me too much (fingers crossed). But what that means is that my blog will be sadly pictureless, unless I review the absolutely spectacular movie I saw tonight......... Little Miss Sunshine!

posted by Holly @ 10:30 PM